The old blog was getting long. https://vaporvents.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-what-if-frack.html
What if you're watching the volcano at Mount Fagradalsfjall in Iceland and get hungry. Some scientists decided to cook sausages on the lava at the foot of the volcano.
March 24, 2021
Suez canal blocked: Tug boats and diggers are working to refloat a giant container ship ,Evergreen Marine, which officials suspect of being hit by a sudden strong wind, causing the hull to deviate, hit the bottom, and run aground.
April 4, 2021
What if you don't cover your tattoos? Italian police tracked down Marc Feren Claude Biart, a fugitive Italian gangster who hid his face but not his tats in a culinary video he had uploaded to YouTube. He was arrested in the Dominican Republic last week and extradited back to Italy.
April 17, 2021
What if a new Protestant Reformation from Germany lurks? #PopeFrancis is aware of the German Synod's push to tear down the Catholic Church’s teaching on human sexuality, priestly celibacy, and other morally and politically charged issues, and has complained to at least one German bishop that the synod’s focus is on “political issues” more than on converting souls.
April 21, 2021
What if a major publisher found some backbone? Jonathan Karp, Simon & Schuster Chief Executive, said the publisher will proceed with a book by former Vice President #MikePence despite objections from some of its employees, saying he wants to preserve a culture that presents different perspectives.
What a bizarre world when I'm giving him credit for doing his job.
May 5, 2021
Switzerland has represented USA interests in Iran since 1979. What if a high-ranking diplomat. at the Swiss embassy in Tehran died after falling from a building?
May 20, 2021
What if the state of Greater Idaho, which would include rural eastern Oregon and large swathes of northeastern California, becomes a reality? Seven Oregon counties , Malheur, Sherman, Grant, Baker, Lake , Jefferson, and Union, have voted to leave Oregon. However , getting this through the state of Oregon's legislature and the US Congress will be nearly impossible. Plus getting California's approval will be daunting.
May 27, 2021
What if the folks in charge are made accountable? Ex PSU President #Spanier, who was convicted of one misdemeanor count of child endangerment in 2017 for being aware of possible child sexual abuse on the State College, Pa., campus but choosing to ignore it, is finally headed to jail to serve a two month sentence.
June 15, 2021
National Parks in the USA are closing their gates because they're over capacity .What if an app said a park was open? Well, folks remain parked next to a sign that says ‘closed to camping’.
June 24, 2021
What if only 43 People Withdrew Their Signatures from a Petition to remove Newsom as the Governor of California? Then the recall election date needs to be set.
July 13, 2021
What if you live in a remote village in Bohitiwaya, Sri Lanka and need an internet signal for online classes during the Covid shutdown? You climb across trees through dense bushes sometimes visited by leopards and elephants to reach a mountaintop treehouse in a forest reserve.
July 30, 2021
What if you live in a federal parliamentary- constitutional monarchy,.and see your government do this? Australia has deployed hundreds of soldiers to Sydney to help enforce a Covid lockdown. They did a similar thing in Melbourne last year.
It's to review your constitution!!!!!!!!!
August 17, 2021
What if the UK and Russia ambassadors, respectively Simon Shercliff and Levan Dzhagaryan, re-staged a famous photo taken in Tehran in 1943 of allied leaders Stalin, Churchill, and FDR?
Iran's Foreign Minister Zarif called the picture "extremely inappropriate".
At least Iran can't blame the USA since there wasn't an American in FDR's spot.
Aug 26, 2021
What if Sirhan Sirhan, the man who was found guilty of assassinating RFK , a presidential candidate in 1968, is up for parole? Los Angeles County DA #GeorgeGascón will not send a member of his office to the parole board hearing, and RFK's son supports his parole.
Sept 17, 2021
What if you heard someone say I found the “The beaver film,”? You'd probably suspect something x-rated.
in 2014 Michal Davidson, a collections archivist for the Idaho State Archives, found a 1948 film, which shows beavers in specially designed boxes parachuting from the sky as part of a Fish and Game experiment to relocate them into remote wilderness.
Oct 31, 2021
While reading the news on the Climateers and the G-20 proposals for world taxes, I was reminded of King George III's plans in the 1760s and 70s to bring all the colonies into a single, coherent system that would allow taxes to be raised for their governance and administration. Many powerful British leaders wanted to rein in colonies who were managing more of their own affairs.
nov 14, 2021
On October 17 Federal District Judge Lance Walker ruled in favor of the Maine Lobstering Union when he rejected a four-month federal ban protecting whales, that would have prevented lobstering in the Gulf of Maine. I learned last week while on a road trip and murmuring aloud about paper straws being used in restaurants in MD and VA, that paper straws are all the rage because plastic straws' trash hurts the whales.
Nov 16, 2021
What if heavy rain and flooding hit southern Egypt? Three people died and more than 500 went to hospitals with scorpion stings. The rain forced scorpions from their hiding places into many houses across the region.
Jan 2, 2022
What if a political leader said this in today's tweet mad world. Metternich, an important Minister in the Austro- Hungarian Empire, saw revolution as an essentially French disease.
Jan 3, 2022
French authorities on Sunday removed a large EU flag attached to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris after opponents of Macron accused him of "erasing" French identity. Of course, Macron's folks said the EU flag was to mark France's six-month EU presidency and it was temporary.
Jan 13, 2022
Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert (R-Shenandoah) lashed out at exiting Governor Northam for "lecturing us all from some assumed moral high ground because he read the book ‘Roots’ and then went on a non-stop reconciliation tour.”
Feb 3, 2022
What if Fidel Castro, a commie leader, pledged that every child under seven would have a liter of subsidized milk every day. In 2022 the guaranteed monthly ration of three kilos of powdered milk for children is running out. So all you wokers keep wearing your Fidel or Che t-shirts.
March 22, 2022
What if Sarah Palin runs in and wins a special election to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Alaskan congressman Don Young (R)? Just having a little fun this morning.
March 31, 2022
What if the CBS News staff was embarrassed and baffled by Mick Mulvaney joining CBS, which MGT claims is to gain more GOP access Hey staff. you got bigger things to be embarrassed about. Do you remember CBS paid Dan Rather, etc?
April 2, 2022
A rule, proposed by Mayor Wu and passed Wednesday by the Boston City Council, prohibits people from targeting people in their homes with protests from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. Five people were cited outside her house with $ 50 fines, however Wu’s administration didn’t put out anything saying this rule was going into effect. Welcome to Putin's Boston.
May 10, 2022
What if radical climate activist groups Extinction Rebellion and Mothers Rise Up have staged protests outside the Lloyd's of London tower in London? Well, Lloyd's of London (SOLYD.UL) is scared and encouraging members of its 100-odd syndicates to attend its annual general meeting next week online rather than in person.
June 15, 2022
Well, if you live long enough: Mayra Flores won a special election and will be the first Mexican-born congresswoman and the first Republican to represent the Rio Grande Valley area in Texas since Reconstruction.
July 27, 2022
What if a debate host faints while on air?
The TalkTV/Sun event between Tory PM candidates, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, ended abruptly when TalkTV’s political editor, Kate McCann, fainted during the debate.\
Aug 16, 2022
What if being a woke corporation doesn't matter to Biden's bureaucracy? Starbucks alleges that a regional NLRB office made special arrangements for pro-union workers to vote in person at its office, despite mail in ballots being the store's chosen election option. And that NLRB officials disclosed confidential information to the union, including which ballots had arrived in the mail to be counted.
Sept 14, 2022
What if Giorgia Meloni, leader of the conservative Fratelli d'Italia party, becomes Italy's first female Prime Minister. Will the press continue to use the goofy word- rightist- to describe her political views.
Oct 11, 2022
What if a New Zealand’s government proposal to tax the greenhouse gases that farm animals make from burping and peeing becomes law?
The government says that farmers should be able to recoup the cost by charging more for climate-friendly products. This not a Babylon Bee article.
Jan 1, 2023
Bill Cosby wants to tour. I'm sure he'll get chuckles, but will a venue host him?. Well, Deshaun Watson returned to the NFL, and the beat goes on.
Jan 7, 2023
What if Hillary Clinton won't go away? She's joining the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs as a "professor of practice". Whatever the he!! that is! Perhaps Allan Iverson has the answer?
March 11, 2023
What if New Hope, a nonprofit adoption agency and pregnancy center that helps new mothers and does not receive government funding, had to fight the New York Office of Children and Family Services agency for four years in court to avoid being shut down. New York state agreed to pay them 250K and leave them alone for now. It's just nuts how folks have to battle so long to prevent the government from intruding in every aspect of our lives. Perhaps, bureaucrats need to take a class in Civics.
Sept 27, 2023
New Zealand will tax farmers for methane from animals from 2025 so they''ll vote against Labour this year.
Nov 7, 2023
California boat captain found guilty of 'seaman's manslaughter' in fire deaths of 34 people that occurred on
Sept. 2, 2019, near Santa Cruz Island
Jerry Boylan, the captain of the 75-foot dive boat Conception was convicted by a U.S. District Court jury in Los Angeles on a single charged count of "misconduct or neglect of a ship officer" under a federal homicide statute created in the early 1800s to deal with steamboat accidents. Boylan got off the boat quickly and didn't warn other passengers. Four other passengers survived.
Federal investigators didn't determine precisely what triggered the blaze, but they found it began toward the rear of the main deck where passengers had plugged cellphones, etc into lithium ion battery chargers.
March 14, 2024
A deep red lip-paint contained in a stone vial which was found at an ancient graveyard site in southern Iran in 2001, has been identified as a lipstick that was applied with a brush during the Bronze Age.
March 19, 2024
Arthus Schubarth pleaded guilty to charges he was involved in genetically engineering a sheep species. He imported parts of Marco Polo argali sheep, which is the largest sheep species in the world, from Kyrgyzstan into the USA without declaring the importation.
His goal was to earn higher prices from shooting preserves,
He violated the The Lacey Act which prohibits trade in wildlife, fish, and plants that have been illegally taken, possessed, transported, or sold.
June 1, 2024
What if SCOTUS in a 9-0 decision authored by Justice Sotomayor,, tossed out a lower court's ruling that had dismissed the NRA's 2018 lawsuit against Maria Vullo, ex-superintendent of NY Department of Financial Services. for coercing banks and insurers to avoid doing business with the NRA .
A warning to public officials against wielding their power to punish speech they dislike. ☝
June 10, 2024
Amanda Knox, now 36, was re-convicted of slandering bar owner Patrick Lumumba, who was detained for 2 weeks on suspicion of murder before being released with alibi. Knox claimed cops coerced her into accusing him. and that she retracted those comments The Florence court system has a long memory.
July 7, 2024
What of Italy's invasion of Greece -bomb reminders. Luftwaffe bombed many areas across Greece from 1943-44. RAF dropped bombs on German structures in Thessaloniki. on December 5, 1943.
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